Institutes & Professorships

School of Sustainability

Centre for Sustainability Management (CSM)

Associated Professorships:

  • Prof. Dr. Steffen Farny, Professorship of Business Administration, in particular Social & Sustainable Entrepreneurship (Faculty of Management and Technology)

Dual memberships:

Honorary professorships:

Institute of Sustainable Chemistry (INSC)

Honorary Professorships:

  • Dr. Ralf Ebinghaus
  • Dr. rer. nat. habil. Henning Friege
  • Dr. Sonia Melba Valdivia Mercado
  • Dr. Gerhard Petersen
  • Dr. rer. nat. Mario Schmidt

Institute of Ecology (IE)

Associated Professorships:

Honorary Professorships:

Social-Ecological Systems Institute (SESI)

Associated Professorships:

Institute for Ethics and Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research (IETSR)

Honorary Professorships: 

  • Dr.-Ing. Matthias Bergmann
  • Dr. Maja Charlotte Göpel

Institute of Sustainability Material Flows and Circularity

Institute of Sustainability Governance (INSUGO)

Honorary professorships:

  • Dr. Dörte Fouquet
  • Dr. Thorsten Müller
  • Dr. Ines Dombrowsky

Institute of Sustainable Psychology (ISP)

  • Junior Professorship of Sustainability Science and Psychology: Prof. Dr. Astrid Kause
  • Professorship for Health Psychology and Applied Biological Psychology, Prof. Dr. Dirk Lehr
  • NN, Psychology, in particular, sustainable behaviour
  • Professorship of Psychology, especially Collective Action for Sustainability, Prof. Dr. Ulf Hahnel
  • Professorship for Social-, Organizational and Political Psychology, especially empirical Negotiation Research, Prof. Dr. Roman Trötschel
  • Professorship of Psychology, in particular Methodology and Evaluation Research, Prof. Dr. Sebastian Wallot

Dual memberships: 

Sustainability Education and Transdisciplinary Research Institute (SETRI)

  • Professorship for Sustainability Education and Communication, Prof. Dr. Daniel Fischer
  • Professorship for Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research, Prof. Dr. Viola Hakkarainen (Administrative Professorship)

Associated Professorships:

Dual memberships: 

Honorary Professors:

  • Dr. Thomas Hoffmann
  • Dr. Daniel Klingenfeld

UNESCO-Chair "Higher Education for Sustainable Development"

Guest professorships

  • Prof. Dr. Erik Hansen
  • Prof. Dr. Werner Härdtle
  • Prof. Dr. Daniel Lang
  • Prof. Dr. Jacqueline Loos
  • Prof. Dr. Maria von Salisch
  • Prof. Dr. Brigitte Urban

Guest Scientists

  • Meinfried Striegnitz
  • Dr. David Lam
  • Dr. Maria Sekar Proborukmi
  • Dr. Matthias Schröter-Vinke